You can't screen out someone because they're gay or they're married or have kids or whatever but there's lots of criteria you can establish.

Nobody has any respect for wholesalers.

I'm trying to establish the level of discount people are seeing in the last year when they buy at auction in this area where I will be moving in the near future.

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A lot of forum members are very knowledgeable in their respective fields related to real estate investing, whether that is real estate sales, wholesaling, flipping, rentals, lending, self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investing, or tax and legal guidance.If you haven’t been to it already, you might want to check out the BP blog: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/The site has quite a few tools that can be helpful for new members.

If you know the market intimately and are confident in the true market value of the specific properties themselves this may not affect you per se, but if there’s any question on pricing, it would benefit you to work with a local expert to establish fair market value with a CMA and also getting an appraisal done (if you’re working with a lender they will require this anyway).

Almost made to feel this was an odd request and "Ordinarily, in all commercial leases, theres is a provision with respect to a renewal option that the tenant must exercise with in a stipulated period prior to the expiry of the lease.

IMO, I would think your reputation would be very crucial when trying to establish yourself as an investor.

I have found this program incredible for the most part but a bit frustrating in only 1 respect. 

got to work with several contractors, established working relationships with some Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?